Title: Influence of Information and Communication Technology (ICTs) in Libraries for Information Service Delivery: Issues and Practices
Author(s): Bala Ahmed &Aminu Ahmed Buba
Publication Year: 2024; Volume 19, Issue 1, pages 12-22

The paper examine influence of information and communication technology (ICTs) in libraries for information service delivery: issues and practices. The paper equally examine the types of information and communication technology (ICTS) application in libraries for information service delivery. The use of ICT for information service delivery is important and necessary in libraries to handle the vast amount of information and for providing faster, accurate, precise, efficient, and effective dissemination of information. However, Issues regarding (ICTS) application in libraries such as Funding, computers, internet availability, standard and up to date union catalogue, were discussed. As a result of advancement in ICT and subsequent globalization, ICT has no doubt improved various aspects of library services from the simple clerical work to the acquisition, organization and dissemination of information and information materials. Also, proper maintenance culture, computer literacy, constant power supply and personnel and equipment for completion of ICTS project were examined. In libraries, ICT has play a tremendous role in easing the arduous task of manual processing and also play a key role in time saving regarding the retrieval of information and has made it possible for libraries to access a wealth of up-to-date resources worldwide. It has also provide a quicker access to information by specialist in a number of disciplines and allow librarians to reach other colleagues and users with messages and document. In Conclusions, adoption of Information and Communication Technologies were hence being used extensively to facilitate the work output in Libraries for effective information services delivery. Therefore, it has been recommendations that, Libraries should keep pace with changes brought in as a result of information and communication technology ICTS through providing adequate infrastructures for effective information services delivery, otherwise they would be left behind.